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Columbus schools can't be serious about levy

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Saturday November 24, 2012 6:12 AM

It appears that Columbus City Schools Superintendent Gene Harris and crew have impaneled two
separate committees to explore the possibility of yet another school tax levy (“
2
panels debate options for levy,”
Dispatch article, Sunday).

Hence, Harris and company once again are setting the stage to do what they do best: taking
taxpayer dollars.

Such a strategy at such a time is difficult to comprehend, particularly in light of the ongoing
data-scrubbing investigation that might result in criminal charges against Harris and others.

Under present circumstances, one could reasonably expect that at least some measure of humility
be shown before our pockets are picked again. What additional obligation should the savvy,
well-educated taxpayer feel toward this administration, after watching millions of dollars being
wasted in the form of bonuses to favored employees, thousands in self-incurred, unnecessary legal
expenses, abandoned school-improvement projects, such as Indianola Middle School, and many other
failed undertakings at the hand of Harris and others?

What sense of duty need any voter feel toward entrusting additional resources to a corrupt
administration having already proved its inability to handle the money previously entrusted to it?
Especially, given the likelihood that some of the system's employees will be prosecuted and
punished accordingly.

Voters need closely consider any future school tax levy. Another is certainly to come.

This will be the best opportunity to say enough is enough. Both taxpayers and students deserve
far better.